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Meanings of slightness in anglès

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futilitat

The quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous.

futilitat
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petitesa
espanyol
finura

Smallness of stature.

petitesa
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Examples for "pettiness"
Examples for "pettiness"
1
Voters were mystified by the pettiness, and the Liberals saw their chance.
The Guardian
2
The horrible pettiness of it all, constituted the maddening sting of it.
The Debtor: A Novel
3
Nothing but our own pinchbeck ideas could ascribe to Him this pettiness.
The Conquest of Fear
4
It is not the pettiness, but the particularity, that makes them unpicturesque.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 / A Magazin...
5
There is freedom to be achieved from the pettiness of our lives.
The Chief End of Man
1
But space was a triviality in a place that didn't truly exist.
A nameless witch
2
We all understand the triviality as well as the importance of music.
The new yorker
3
But the triviality died on her lips as the truth had died.
The Native Born; or, the Rajah's People
4
The sound reduced everything else that was on their minds to triviality.
Acts of faith
5
No sport links indignation and triviality to a greater degree than golf.
The Guardian
1
Out of his puniness and fright he challenged and menaced the whole wide world.
The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories
2
She almost laughed at its puniness.
Return of the Crimson Guard
3
Her Majesty admired the intelligent expression of both men and women, but was painfully struck with their puniness and paleness.
Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2

The property of an attractively thin person.

Usage of slightness in anglès
1
The other showed a middle-aged woman, almost beautiful in her ardent slightness.
The Red Lily — Volume 03
2
But it was the very slightness of these bibelots that disorganised me.
Certain Personal Matters
3
The very slightness, vagueness, of the memory gave it an added poignancy.
The Reef
4
The figure was tall, and erred, perhaps, on the side of slightness.
To-morrow?
5
With her slightness, her coltish, slightly androgynous air, she was a true gamine.
In the night room: a novel
6
He examined her, seeming to measure the slightness of her frame.
The Nether World
7
You notice the slightness of the thumbs and of he two 'little' fingers.
A. V. Laider
8
I braced my slightness for the shock but there was none.
The Irish Times
9
Height and length of limb give distinction; slightness gives grace; women are squat!
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions. Volume 2 (of 2)
10
Without pausing to consider the slightness of this evidence, etc.'
Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion"
11
And she felt acutely her slightness, her girlishness, and her need of his help.
Hilda Lessways
12
He was a man everlastingly maddened by slightness and weakness.
Gone to Earth
13
But details asserted themselves: the too-sharpness of the nose, the too-slightness of the body.
A Hundred Thousand Worlds
14
It carried an air, despite the slightness of it.
Ruggles of Red Gap
15
One instance will show the extreme slightness which characterizes many of the grounds of inculpation:-
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
16
The slightness of the cytolytic effect allows the egg to develop without treatment with hypertonic sea-water.
Darwin and Modern Science
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